org.hibernate.InvalidMappingException:Could not parse mapping document from resource com/lara/Person.hbm.xml

Question

Exception in thread \"main\" org.hibernate.InvalidMappingException: Could not parse mapping document from resource com/lara/Person.hbm.xml
    at org.hibernate.cfg.C         


        

Answer 1

The error message says (buried in a big stack trace):

Document root element "hibernate-mapping", must match DOCTYPE root "hibernate-configuration"

This is because in your Person.hbm.xml file, you have

where you should probably have

This DOCTYPE has to match the root tag.